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POFIVAD
APR 30 1924
associated during the past year in work for the New Jersey Zinc
Company, and have asked him to make X-rays of the hands of the
individuals you bring to him. I enclose a copy of my note. I
to 2 R
recognize, of course, the need to move cautiously in the matter, UNITED STATES
but it would be a great help to us if you could have X-ray
RADIUM CORP.
photographs made of the hands of your chemist and his assistant,
of your forelady, Miss Smith, and of any of the other girls at
the work whom you esn trust and whom you can induce to make the
trip. If we can have throe or four others it will be a boon
to our needs. Also, I should like it very much if you would
induce Dr. Lehman to go. If you telephone to Dr. Alexander he
will be rendy to make appointments at your convenience.
There seem to be two possibilities in regard to the
radium: first, that the rays are causing the damago; and,
secondly, that radium itself, absorbed in minute quantities
through the skin over long periods of time, is deposited in
the bones. Since it apparently behaves like calcium this point
of deposition seems highly probable to us. Once deposited in
the bones, my associates who have been working with radium feel
that it might exist for a good while and continue to slowly
exert harm. You will recollect that I folt that in the case of
the jaw necrosis cases what had occurred was that something had
interfered with the nutrition of the jaw bones, cutting off the
blood supply and leaving a devitalized tissue. Dr. Barry's
X-rays show areas of rarefication which would occur if bone died
and was slowly absorbed. When, in the case of the jaw, such
devitalized bone is exposed to the action of the mouth bacteria
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